Are the northern lights caused by ‘particles from the Sun’? Not exactly
What a spectacle a big aurora is, its shimmering curtains and colorful rays of light illuminating a dark sky. Many people refer to aurora...
A year into Biden’s presidency, U.S. military plans for Greenland remain...
Former U.S. President Donald Trump’s suggestion in 2019 that he wanted to buy Greenland signaled an intense strategic U.S. interest in the island, an...
Is a polar bear eating reindeer normal behavior — or the...
Recently, scientists in Hornsund, Svalbard — a Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean — witnessed a polar bear pursuing a reindeer into the sea...
Is Santa’s sleigh zero carbon? The answer lies in reindeer poo
Santa’s sleigh is famously pulled by eight reindeer, nine if you include the luminous Rudolf who pitches in when it’s foggy. The classic eight...
The 2021 Arctic Report Card reveals a (human) story of cascading...
The Arctic has long been portrayed as a distant end-of-the-Earth place, disconnected from everyday common experience. But as the planet rapidly warms, what happens...
Five ways reindeer are perfectly evolved for pulling Santa’s sleigh
We all know that Father Christmas would struggle to deliver presents to everyone around the world without the help of his magical reindeer. But...
Spotty data and media bias delay justice for missing and murdered...
No one knows just how many Indigenous girls or women go missing in the United States each year.
There are estimates. In 2019, 8,162 Indigenous...
Bringing woolly mammoths back from extinction might not be such a...
U.S. startup Colossal Biosciences has announced plans to bring woolly mammoths, or animals like them, back from extinction and into the frosty landscape of...
2 NASA scientists explain what’s driving overall Arctic sea ice decline
September marks the end of the summer sea ice melt season and the Arctic sea ice minimum, when sea ice over the Northern Hemisphere...
The Arctic Council has weathered 25 years of bumpy Russia-Western relations...
For generations, the Arctic has captured our imaginations as a region of contradictions. It is simultaneously a frozen wilderness, home to Indigenous peoples, a...
